Sadar police in Chatra on Monday claimed to solve the missing case of a woman by arresting her husband Deepak Kumar who confessed to killing the woman and burning the dead body in the forest area. Sadar police station officer-in-charge Luv Kumar stated that they had collected evidence from the spot including wooden blocks to burn the body and a bike. The case was solved as the woman's mother didn't accept the story presented by Deepak and knocked on the door of Sadar police.

Sources said Deepak Kumar, a resident of Kisunpur mohalla new police line area in Chatra town but originally from Bandu village under Lawalong police station, got married to Moni Kumari (28) a resident of Kani Bazar in Hazaribagh town. Kumar said both were in love and got married in 2017. They also have a boy named Ansh Kumar.

In April this year, Moni went missing and Deepak blamed her of eloping with someone with whom she was having extramarital affairs. But Lalita Devi, mother of Moni didn't believe this story and after waiting for a few months she finally filed a complaint to Sadar police on December 27 charging Deepak responsible in this case. She said despite a love marriage, Deepak was torturing her daughter for dowry.

Seeing the seriousness of this case, Sadar police came into action and brought Deepak to the police station. He was interrogated after which Deepak admitted that he strangulated Moni and used his bike to take her body to a forest area behind Hia mohalla to burn the body. The officer-in-charge said they collected evidence against Deepak right from wooden logs used to burn the dead body and his bike. He said it was a blind case which was solved as the complaint came to them yesterday. He said Deepak has been sent to Chatra jail.